Moldova Arrival, Part 2

The females of the Frank family arrived yesterday!  Our trip was relatively simple and Rayna was an excellent little travel buddy.  She insisted on wanting to take both of our carry-on bags everywhere we went... even when I had to wake her up after 3 hours of sleep for the night to go from one flight to the other, she wanted to strap on her very heavy back-pack and was ready to go!  In the Munich airport, we ended up having to walk down 4 flights of stairs, and go outside in the early morning cold to catch a bus which took us to our airplane.  Then we walked up the stairs of the plane -- just like in the old days.  :)

Arriving in Chisinau was also a new experience... From what I could tell, I think ours was the only arriving flight at the time.  So we walked off the plane, walked into the airport, went through the very quick customs line, grabbed our suitcases which were already ready for us, and walked out the front door.  How nice and simple!  The whole process took less than 8 minutes.

A driver brought us to the apartment where we were finally reunited with our menfolk.  The reunion was mostly a very happy one, apart from the major tantrum Miles threw when he was told he couldn't go up the elevator with Daddy since there was no room with all the suitcases.  I carried the screaming child up the 4 flights of stairs and was quickly re-immersed back into full-scale motherhood.

After we had settled in, I started to feel tired, but Rayna was a little energizer bunny.  She went all over the apartment adjusting things and figuring things out.  The kids all started doing obstacle course races -- it was fun to see them all playing together:

And I got a kick out of this:

...Right away she had set the little table, even though it wasn't yet dinner time.  The girl likes order!

I also think it's funny that our apartment only has 4 regular glasses/cups, so the kids keep drinking out of wine glasses.

Our kitchen is a little small for 6 people to eat in.

But we're making it work.

The washing machine, on the other hand, is a complete mystery to us, since it's all in Russian...

Overall the apartment is wonderful, though, and we're very thankful to be here -- and all together!